Thoughts on aggression

Maddy was hearing a Tamil song. It said - 'திக்குசியாய் இல்லாம நீ திக்குசியாய் இருடா'. It literally means - have the fire in you without having fire in you. He was confused. Mystic lines indeed. Let us pause the discussion about these lines for a moment and then get to the main theme of this post.

Maddy had seen many aggressive males. He himself shows aggression sometimes. He started experiencing the negative impact of aggression shown by others. He started analyzing on what was wrong with those males. By then, he knew that something was wrong with those guys. But did not know what was wrong. One fine day his mind told him that that was aggression which he did not like in them. He realized that he himself possesses that trait. He swore on that day to gradually give up aggression. Further he shared me the following thoughts.

Aggression is a negative trait. It results out of self-centrism. There can be many reasons for showing aggression like you want to enforce your thought, you want to meet your guidelines, you want to maximize your profits, etc. On the otherhand, passion is a positive trait. Aggression occurs when a passionate person does not have empathy. One has to be passionate and not aggressive. Both these qualities are of fuming nature.

Further he quoted the first mentioned Tamil line and gave his explanation that - 'Be passionate without being aggressive.'